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Software

Package {ggbrookings} - Author, maintainer.

Programming Skills

R
Git & GitHub
Markdown
HTML
CSS
SQL
Python

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Manuel Alcala Kovalski

I have made interactive visualizations viewed by thousands of people, led data science trainings for 65+ staff, and written over 40 blog posts.

Education

B.A., Mathematical Economics (minor in Statistics)

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

2019 - 2017

  • GPA: 3.5
  • Economics Honors Thesis: “The Distributional Effects of Capital Account Liberalization: Evidence from a New Index”

B.A. candidate, Mathematics, Economics, and Political Science

University of Miami

Coral Gables, FL

2017 - 2015

  • GPA: 3.9
  • Completed 69 credits in four semesters

Research Experience

Senior Research Assistant

Washington, D.C.

The Brookings Institution - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Present - 2019

  • Streamlined data collection by web scraping in R, automated data cleaning, modeled/analyzed data, and communicated results through public facing data visualisation
  • Created an R package to facilitate data visualization consistent with the Brookings brand
  • Building R shiny applications to communicate insights from macroeconomic data

Summer Undergraduate Minority Research Scholar

Leonard Davis Institute

University of Pennsylvania

2018 - 2018

  • Independently analyzed and constructed statistical models for large data pertaining to healthcare costs

Publications

The relationships between marijuana use and exercise among young and middle-aged adults

Preventive Medicine

N/A

2021 - 2021

  • Co-authored with Dr. Michael T. French and Dr. Karoline Mortensen
  • Featured in U.S. News